{"id":329549,"date":"2025-12-22T09:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T09:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/329549\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T09:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T09:57:07","slug":"plans-to-sell-car-parks-in-southamptons-bedford-place-halted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/329549\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to sell car parks in Southampton&#8217;s Bedford Place halted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conservative opposition group leader Jeremy Moulton said the car parks were &#8220;key to the success of Bedford Place as a shopping area&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have been working hard to ensure the voice of business is listened to and suggesting to the council alternatives which could save money for the council whilst continuing to support needs of local businesses and people,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sarah Bogle, cabinet member for economic development, said the council was looking at selling some of the site and retaining part of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s important that whilst we look at options and proposals for Amoy Street car parks that we review the parking on offer across Bedford Place to ensure it is safe, accessible, and convenient for those who work and visit the area,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The review of the car parks in Amoy Street is part of the Labour-run council&#8217;s wider asset development and disposal programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conservative opposition group leader Jeremy Moulton said the car parks were &#8220;key to the success of Bedford Place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-329549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}